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Compress Javascript and CSS to Optimize Your Blog
Thursday, May 16th, 2013Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE As your blog grows in popularity, you will undoubtedly be faced with the problem of increased traffic. You might ask: how on earth is that a problem? In terms of increased readers and possibly higher ad revenues, it is not,...

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3 Ways to Make Dynamic Pages Load Faster
Monday, March 18th, 2013Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Dynamic websites are easier to manage and often more content driven than the old static websites from the early days of the web. With that dynamic nature, however, comes a greater amount of security risk and a greater need for...

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Using XML-RPC for Remote Blog Posting
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE The most common procedure for posting to a blog is to access the blog’s backend page and log in directly within your web browser. You would then type or paste your content onto a web form, select categories, add tags,...

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Create a Multi-Tier Blog with WordPress Roles
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Often times when we think of blogs, we picture a single-user website with one author communicating with the rest of the world. While that is certainly an option, another option is to create a blog that has multiple users, multiple...

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Using a Theme Framework for WordPress
Monday, October 15th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Web development is not always at the top of the list of web hosting industry topics, but there are plenty of instances where the type of development or design used on a site directly or indirectly affects its performance and...

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Equipping Your Blog with Search Engine Friendly URLs
Thursday, August 30th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE As long as web administrators have been using dynamic content management systems (CMS) to power their websites, they have been looking for ways to make better looking URLs. They are often called “search engine friendly” URLs, but in most cases,...

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Adjusting PHP File Upload Settings for Your Blog
Thursday, August 9th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE PHP is one the most widely used server-side scripting languages on the web. Many blogging content management systems (CMS), such as WordPress, rely on it to serve dynamic web sites to web users. Every web server has a PHP settings...

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Increase WordPress Security with an .htaccess file
Friday, July 6th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When you have an active blog, the last thing you want to stop and worry about is security. Nevertheless, WordPress security is very important to the safety and longevity of your blog. Using WordPress’ .htaccess file, you can tighten your...

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The Best Practices for Using Images in Blogs
Thursday, June 28th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Blogging is mostly about content, and the bulk of that content is almost always text. You can, however, greatly enhance your readers’ experiences by adding images. This brief guide will cover some of the important things you should know about...

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5 Alternative Uses for Blog Hosting
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE As the name implies, blog hosting is primarily designed to host blogs. A blog is simply a public online journal that may or may not contain personal information. Each entry is called a post, which may include text, images, and...

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